What do you mean is EVERYTHING IN THE store free?

Maybe you should apply.

Lack of help tends to be the trend.

I never look at prices in a minimart. I just expect it to be almost double what it be in a supermarket.

that sounds.............. inconvenient

get it

No, I mean it's impossible to tell what anything in the store costs, because no items have price tags.

Yeah those poor oil companies, they are so understaffed. They do this on purpose for the reason you just stated. For those of us that don't drive land rovers and use summer as a verb can't afford to be a pawn of corporatate greed.

6 Upvotes for this?? Seriously? You just assume you'll be ripped off so you don't even look for the price?

You have no idea of what you are talking about. Most mini mart/stations are franchise owned. And make almost nothing on fuel sales, and 95% of the money to keep the employees paid and lights on , comes from the store.

But carry on being IGNORANT

You are IGNORANT. Go buy a franchise minimart/fuel station as seen as you know so much. You have no clue about anything to do with this industry at all. or running a business in general.

Figure 50% higher than it would be at Walmart. They'll ring you up and tell you the exact price.

With no corporate oversight and micromanagement from the oil company that they franchise from? I have worked retail for years, if they order fuel far enough in advance, they make plenty on the pumps, I'm just asking that they put price tags on the products they sell so customers know how much they are upcharging for the convenience.

Sorry I don't have 150,000 laying around at the moment, I do know it's ILLEGAL in Massachusetts to not put price tags on the items you're selling, unless you have a self price checker system installed.

I've forced franchisees to sell the business by exposing all the corrupt practices they assume they can get away with.

Again, you have no clue, good day.

Yes I know this. price checker is at the front of the store, just ask. "how much is this" The price checker has to be x feet from any one product. the minimart is small enough that the person checking you out, and price checking, is fine. Don't like it shop elsewhere, simple.

The days of price marking each item left the building in ma a decade ago.

AGAIN you are IGNORANT.

Sure you have, but can't afford to buy a franchise .

BRB need taller boots

From mass. Gov: "The Massachusetts Item Pricing Law requires:

Food stores, or retailers with food departments, that do not use price scanners must individually price each item in addition to displaying the price on the shelves."

They have a price scanner. it is at the front of the store.

What part of this don't you understand. The law DOES NOT require a self (read customer) price scanner, just one before being rung up.

Good Day. Go report them, troll. Then when the prices are even higher because if the state decides they are outside the letter of the law and fine them, you can bitch some more. The dumb, it hurts.

Why would anyone spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a franchise if it's soooo hard to turn a profit that they have to price hide their standard 200% markup.

So I can just grab the price scanner from behind the counter, turn the monitor to face me and scan items from the store? Oh I will, and that is exactly what the law says. How fucking hard is it to price the items on your shelf? Expect a visit from the division of standards in the near future. Fines for non complience shouldn't be passed on to the customer anyway. Gotta make those boat payments somehow though, right?

Or... just go to a different store?

Like I said, you have no clue. Wholesale pricing depends on the volume of product you buy, that IS why supermarkets, box stores, amazon, and walmart have cheaper prices, than what a mini mart vendor pricing gets.

And why many minimart owners will go buy their stock at a supermarket when the items are on sale, As they can buy it from the supermarket for less than the wholesale vendor sells it to them. Meaning the Bottle of coke cost them more from the coke vendor than buying it on sale at a supermarket. Same with most of the items in a mini mart that you can also find at a bigger box store.

Again, you have no clue and are IGNORANT!!

The price scanner is the guy behind the counter. hell the scan tool is on the counter in your reach.

You are IGNORANT, you think these owners are rolling in money and are rich. Get a life.